[AusNOG] Dallas Buyers Club vs iiNet

[Robert Hudson]

Carbon neutral? Not quite. A cow might be worse though. Harder to ride too.
:)
On 07/04/2015 5:21 PM, "Paul Wilkins" <paulwilkins369 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Don't think of it as a horse - think of it as a carbon neutral, solar
> powered quadrapedal mode of transport.
>
> On 7 April 2015 at 17:06, Shane Short <shane at short.id.au> wrote:
>
>> Or we could get Paul Wilkins in to tell us what life is like up on his
>> high horse! :)
>>
>>
>> Paul Wilkins wrote:
>>
>> We need Ben Grubb to give us the scoop on how Australian traffic numbers
>> have collapsed :)
>>
>> Paul Wilkins
>>
>> On 7 April 2015 at 15:08, Narelle <narellec at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dallas Buyers Club slays iiNet in landmark piracy case
>>> April 7, 2015 - 2:49PM
>>> Ben Grubb
>>>
>>> A Federal Court judge has ordered several Australian internet service
>>> providers, including iiNet, to hand over to a film studio the
>>> identities of thousands of account holders whose internet connections
>>> were allegedly used to share without authorisation the Dallas Buyers
>>> Club movie.
>>>
>>> In a landmark judgment delivered on Tuesday afternoon, Justice Nye
>>> Perram ruled in favour of Dallas Buyers Club LLC's "preliminary
>>> discovery" application requesting that the ISPs disclose the
>>> identities of people it alleges shared the movie online.
>>>
>>> In addition to iiNet, ISPs Dodo, Internode, Amnet Broadband, Adam
>>> Internet and Wideband Networks will also be required to hand over
>>> customer details.
>>>
>>> It was unclear on Tuesday whether iiNet would appeal the decision
>>> before the Full Court of the Federal Court. They will have 28 days to
>>> do so.
>>>
>>> The ruling means about 4700 Australian internet account holders whose
>>> service was used to share Dallas Buyers Club on the internet from as
>>> early as May 2013 are soon likely to receive legal letters from Dallas
>>> Buyers Club LLC's Australian lawyers threatening legal action unless
>>> large sums of money are paid for breach of copyright.
>>>
>>> This occurred in the US, where legal action was threatened against
>>> account holders claiming they were liable for damages of up to
>>> $US150,000 ($196,656) in court unless settlement fees of up to $US7000
>>> ($9171) were paid. This practice is commonly referred to as
>>> "speculative invoicing".
>>>
>>> But in a win for iiNet and the other ISPs, the judge ordered that any
>>> letters sent to ISP customers must first be seen by him.
>>>
>>> The judge also ordered that the privacy of individuals should be
>>> protected, meaning Dallas Buyers Club cannot disclose the identities
>>> of letter recipients.
>>>
>>> etc at:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/dallas-buyers-club-slays-iinet-in-landmark-piracy-case-20150407-1mey38.html
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> Narelle
>>> narellec at gmail.com
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